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Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
The Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (German Academy for Language and Literature) is a German literary academy founded in 1949 and based in Darmstadt, best known for awarding the Georg-Büchner-Prize.
Akademik Mstislav Keldysh (Академик Мстислав Келдыш)
Akademik Mstislav Keldysh (Академик Мстислав Келдыш) is a Russian oceanographic research vessel, built in Finland and entered in 1981, best known as support ship for the Mir submersibles.
Akademik Rupes
Akademik Rupes is a 265 km rupes (scarp) on Mercury, centered at 8.14°, 161.66° west-positive, IAU-approved December 2, 2022, and named for the Bulgarian Black Sea research vessel Akademik.
Akademy
Akademy is the annual world summit and general assembly of the KDE community, held since 2004 with a two-day conference followed by workshops and coding sprints.
Akaganeite
Akaganeite is an iron oxyhydroxide mineral with chloride in its tunnels, named for the Akagané mine in Japan and known as a destructive steel corrosion product.
Akahogi Tile Kiln Site (赤保木瓦窯跡)
Akahogi Tile Kiln Site (赤保木瓦窯跡) in Takayama, Gifu, is a national Historic Site of six ancient kilns, four Nara-period tile kilns that fired roof tiles for Hida Kokubunji and two Heian-era Sue ware kilns.
Akai
Akai, also known as Akai Electric (赤井電機), was a Japanese consumer electronics company founded in Tokyo in 1924, known for reel-to-reel tape recorders and the MPC.
Akai Haato
Akai Haato (赤井はあと), nicknamed Haachama, is a Japanese Virtual YouTuber of Hololive's first generation who debuted in 2018, known for experimental streams and a split-persona storyline between her idol character and the chaotic Haachama.
Akaike information criterion
The Akaike information criterion (AIC) is a statistic for comparing statistical models fitted to the same data by maximum likelihood, preferring the model with the smallest AIC value.
Akakesion
Akakesion (Ἀκακήσιον, Acacesium) was a defunct ancient Arcadian town in Parrhasia, at the foot of a hill of the same name near Lykosoura, known from Pausanias and the Suda for its stone image of Hermes Akakesios.
Akaki Shanidze
Akaki Shanidze (აკაკი შანიძე, 1887–1987) was a Georgian linguist and philologist who co-founded Tbilisi State University and wrote the first scientific grammar of modern Georgian.
Akaki Tsereteli
Akaki Tsereteli (აკაკი წერეთელი, 1840–1915) was a Georgian poet, writer, and publicist, one of the founders of modern Georgian literature, known for "Suliko" and "Bashi-Achuki".
Akakios Kakiasvili
Akakios Kakiasvili (Kakhi Kakhiashvili, კახი კახიაშვილი), born 1969 in Tskhinvali, is a Georgian-born Greek weightlifter with Olympic gold in 1992 (Unified Team), 1996, and 2000 (Greece) and seven world records.
Akal Oil and Gas Field
The Akal field is an offshore oil and gas field in the Bay of Campeche, Mexico, discovered in 1976 and operated by Pemex as the main producer of the Cantarell complex.
Akal Takht (ਅਕਾਲ ਤਖ਼ਤ)
The Akal Takht (ਅਕਾਲ ਤਖ਼ਤ, Akal Takht Sahib) is the supreme seat of Sikh authority, founded by Guru Hargobind in 1606 in the Golden Temple complex at Amritsar.
Akala (rapper)
Akala is the stage name of Kingslee James McLean Daley (born 1983), a British rapper, poet, and author who founded the Hip-hop Shakespeare Company and wrote the bestselling Natives.
Akalamdug
Akalamdug, meaning "The son of the good land", was a Sumerian ruler of Ur around 2600 BC, known only from inscribed cylinder seals in the Royal Cemetery of Ur.
Akalanka
Akalanka (अकलंक), also recorded as Akalankadeva, was a Digambara Jain logician and philosopher of the Deccan who flourished circa 720–780 CE during the early Rashtrakuta period.
Akaler Sandhane
Akaler Sandhane (আকালের সন্ধানে, In Search of Famine) is Mrinal Sen's 1980 Bengali film about a Calcutta film crew shooting a 1943 Bengal famine film in a village; it won the 1981 Berlin Silver Bear and four National Film Awards.
Akali Dal (Waris Punjab De)
Akali Dal (Waris Punjab De) is an unregistered Punjabi political party launched in January 2025 by jailed MP Amritpal Singh's father, contesting the Panthic vote against the Shiromani Akali Dal ahead of Punjab's 2027 Assembly elections.
Akam (wrestler)
Akam, real name Sunny Dhinsa (born 1993), Canadian wrestler; one half of WWE's Authors of Pain with Rezar; NXT and Raw Tag Team Champion, 2016 Dusty Rhodes Classic winner; released by WWE February 2025.
Akam and Puram
Akam and puram (அகம், புறம்) are the two traditional divisions of classical Tamil Sangam poetry, codified in the Tolkappiyam: akam is love poetry of private life, puram is poetry of war and public life.
Akamai Technologies
Akamai Technologies is an American cybersecurity and cloud computing company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1998 by Tom Leighton and Danny Lewin as a pioneering content delivery network.
Akamatsu Mitsusuke
Akamatsu Mitsusuke (赤松満祐) was a Muromachi-period shugo daimyo, military governor of Harima, Bizen, and Mimasaka, who assassinated shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori at a banquet in Kyoto in 1441, triggering the Kakitsu Incident.
Akame ga Kill! (アカメが斬る!)
Akame ga Kill! (アカメが斬る!) is a completed dark fantasy manga by Takahiro and Tetsuya Tashiro, serialized in Monthly Gangan Joker 2010–2016 across 15 volumes, adapted into a 24-episode 2014 White Fox anime with a divergent ending.
Akan apae praise poetry
Akan apae praise poetry is a royal court verse genre of Ghana, recited by the king's executioners at durbars and festivals to praise kings and recount past rulers' deeds.
Akan gold regalia
Akan gold regalia (ahentadeɛ) is the ensemble of gold ornaments, staffs, swords, and stools through which Akan rulers have displayed authority since the fifteenth century.
Akan goldweights
Akan goldweights, or abrammuo, are cast-brass counterweights made by the Akan peoples of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire from about 1400 to 1900 to weigh gold dust currency.
Akan languages
Akan languages (Twi-Akan, Twi-Fante): a Kwa Niger-Congo macrolanguage [aka] of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, with Twi (Asante, Akuapem) and Fante as major dialects; 49.10% of Ghanaians per the 2010 census, tone and ATR vowel harmony, Roman-script orthography standardized 1961.
Akan names
Akan names: the naming system of the Akan people of Ghana, built around day names (kradin) assigned by weekday of birth, paired male/female forms like Kofi/Afua, plus family, circumstantial, and theophoric names.